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19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his
 clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the
 LORD.
19:2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the
 scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
 the prophet the son of Amoz.
19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
 trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy:  for the children are come to the
 birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom
 the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and
 will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:  wherefore lift
 up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith
 the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the
 servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
19:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and
 shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in
 his own land.
19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against
 Libnah:  for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come
 out to fight against thee:  he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God
 in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be
 delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all
 lands, by destroying them utterly:  and shalt thou be delivered?
19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
 destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden
 which were in Thelasar?
19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of
 the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and
 read it:  and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it
 before the LORD.
19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel,
 which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou
 alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
19:16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear:  open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: 
 and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the
 living God.
19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and
 their lands,
19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire:  for they were no gods, but
 the work of men's hands, wood and stone:  therefore they have destroyed
 them.
19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his
 hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD
 God, even thou only.
19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the
 LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib
 king of Assyria I have heard.
19:21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The
 virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to
 scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?  and against whom hast thou
 exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?  even against the
 Holy One of Israel.
19:23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With
 the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains,
 to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof,
 and the choice fir trees thereof:  and I will enter into the lodgings of
 his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet
 have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient
 times that I have formed it?  now have I brought it to pass, that thou
 shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed
 and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green
 herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be
 grown up.
19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy
 rage against me.
19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears,
 therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I
 will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
19:29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such
 things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth
 of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards,
 and eat the fruits thereof.
19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again
 take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape
 out of mount Zion:  the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall
 not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with
 shield, nor cast a bank against it.
19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not
 come into this city, saith the LORD.
19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my
 servant David's sake.
19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out,
 and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five
 thousand:  and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were
 all dead corpses.
19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and
 dwelt at Nineveh.
19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
 god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword:  and
 they escaped into the land of Armenia.  And Esarhaddon his son reigned in
 his stead.

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20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death.  And the prophet Isaiah the
 son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine
 house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
20:3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in
 truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy
 sight.  And Hezekiah wept sore.
20:4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court,
 that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
20:5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the
 LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
 tears:  behold, I will heal thee:  on the third day thou shalt go up unto
 the house of the LORD.
20:6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and
 this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this
 city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs.  And they took and laid it on
 the boil, and he recovered.
20:8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD
 will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third
 day?
20:9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD
 will do the thing that he hath spoken:  shall the shadow go forward ten
 degrees, or go back ten degrees?
20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down
 ten degrees:  nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD:  and he brought the shadow
 ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
20:12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
 sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah:  for he had heard that Hezekiah
 had been sick.
20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all the house of his
 precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious
 ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his
 treasures:  there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
 Hezekiah showed them not.
20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him,
 What said these men?  and from whence came they unto thee?  And Hezekiah
 said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
20:15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house?  And Hezekiah
 answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen:  there
 is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.
20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that
 which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried
 into Babylon:  nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
20:18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
 shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king
 of Babylon.
20:19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which
 thou hast spoken.  And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be
 in my days?
20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he
 made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers:  and Manasseh his son reigned in
 his stead.

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21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned
 fifty and five years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
21:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the
 abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of
 Israel.
21:3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had
 destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab
 king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said,
 In Jerusalem will I put my name.
21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the
 house of the LORD.
21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used
 enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards:  he wrought much
 wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house,
 of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and
 in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put
 my name for ever:
21:8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land
 which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to
 all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my
 servant Moses commanded them.
21:9 But they hearkened not:  and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than
 did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
21:10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and
 hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before
 him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing
 such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both
 his ears shall tingle.
21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet
 of the house of Ahab:  and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish,
 wiping it, and turning it upside down.
21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them
 into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to
 all their enemies;
21:15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have
 provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt,
 even unto this day.
21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled
 Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah
 to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin
 that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of
 his own house, in the garden of Uzza:  and Amon his son reigned in his
 stead.
21:19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned two years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Meshullemeth,
 the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
21:20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
 father Manasseh did.
21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the
 idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way
 of the LORD.
21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in
 his own house.
21:24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against
 king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his
 stead.
21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written
 in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza:  and Josiah
 his son reigned in his stead.

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22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
 thirty and one years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Jedidah,
 the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
22:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked
 in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand
 or to the left.
22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the
 king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to
 the house of the LORD, saying,
22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is
 brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have
 gathered of the people:
22:5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that
 have the oversight of the house of the LORD:  and let them give it to the
 doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the
 breaches of the house,
22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn
 stone to repair the house.
22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was
 delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found
 the book of the law in the house of the LORD.  And Hilkiah gave the book to
 Shaphan, and he read it.
22:9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word
 again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the
 house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that
 have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
22:10 And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest
 hath delivered me a book.  And Shaphan read it before the king.
22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of
 the law, that he rent his clothes.
22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of
 Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and
 Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
22:13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all
 Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found:  for great is the
 wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not
 hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which
 is written concerning us.
22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and
 Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of
 Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in
 Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the
 man that sent you to me.
22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and
 upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the
 king of Judah hath read:
22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other
 gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their
 hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall
 not be quenched.
22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus
 shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the
 words which thou hast heard;
22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before
 the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against
 the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse,
 and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee,
 saith the LORD.
22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt
 be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the
 evil which I will bring upon this place.  And they brought the king word
 again.

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23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah
 and of Jerusalem.
23:2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of
 Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and
 the prophets, and all the people, both small and great:  and he read in
 their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the
 house of the LORD.
23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to
 walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and
 his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the
 words of this covenant that were written in this book.  And all the people
 stood to the covenant.
23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the
 second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple
 of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and
 for all the host of heaven:  and he burned them without Jerusalem in the
 fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had
 ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in
 the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal,
 to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of
 heaven.
23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without
 Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and
 stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves
 of the children of the people.
23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house
 of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled
 the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to
 Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the
 entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on
 a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of
 the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their
 brethren.
23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of
 Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the
 fire to Molech.
23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the
 sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of
 Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the
 chariots of the sun with fire.
23:12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz,
 which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made
 in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and
 brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook
 Kidron.
23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the
 right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had
 builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the
 abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children
 of Ammon, did the king defile.
23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled
 their places with the bones of men.
23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which
 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that
 altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and
 stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were
 there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and
 burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the
 LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
23:17 Then he said, What title is that that I see?  And the men of the
 city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from
 Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of
 Bethel.
23:18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones.  So they let
 his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities
 of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to
 anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he
 had done in Bethel.
23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon
 the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto
 the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
23:22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the
 judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor
 of the kings of Judah;
23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was
 holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the
 images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land
 of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the
 words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest
 found in the house of the LORD.
23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the
 LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might,
 according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like
 him.
23:26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great
 wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the
 provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have
 removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen,
 and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
23:29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of
 Assyria to the river Euphrates:  and king Josiah went against him; and he
 slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and
 brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre.  And the
 people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and
 made him king in his father's stead.
23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and
 he reigned three months in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Hamutal,
 the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
23:32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according
 to all that his fathers had done.
23:33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath,
 that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an
 hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
23:34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of
 Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz
 away:  and he came to Egypt, and died there.
23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed
 the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh:  he
 exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one
 according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.
23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and
 he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Zebudah,
 the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
23:37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according
 to all that his fathers had done.

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24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim
 became his servant three years:  then he turned and rebelled against him.
24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the
 Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and
 sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD,
 which he spake by his servants the prophets.
24:3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove
 them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he
 did;
24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed:  for he filled Jerusalem
 with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers:  and Jehoiachin his son reigned in
 his stead.
24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land:  for the
 king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates
 all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned in Jerusalem three months.  And his mother's name was Nehushta,
 the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
24:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to
 all that his father had done.
24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
 against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his
 servants did besiege it.
24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he,
 and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers:  and
 the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD,
 and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of
 gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as
 the LORD had said.
24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the
 mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen
 and smiths:  none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the
 land.
24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and
 the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those
 carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
24:16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and
 smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the
 king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in
 his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
24:18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Hamutal,
 the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
24:19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according
 to all that Jehoiakim had done.
24:20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and
 Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled
 against the king of Babylon.

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25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month,
 in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
 came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it:  and
 they built forts against it round about.
25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
25:3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in
 the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by
 the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: 
 (now the Chaldees were against the city round about: ) and the king
 went the way toward the plain.
25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him
 in the plains of Jericho:  and all his army were scattered from him.
25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to
 Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the
 eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to
 Babylon.
25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is
 the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came
 Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto
 Jerusalem:
25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the
 houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the
 guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
25:11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the
 fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the
 multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be
 vinedressers and husbandmen.
25:13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the
 bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the
 Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and
 all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
25:15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold,
 in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the
 house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
25:17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter
 upon it was brass:  and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the
 wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of
 brass:  and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
 Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of
 war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were
 found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the
 people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that
 were found in the city:
25:20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to
 the king of Babylon to Riblah:
25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the
 land of Hamath.  So Judah was carried away out of their land.
25:22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah
 the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
25:23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard
 that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah
 to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of
 Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah
 the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear
 not to be the servants of the Chaldees:  dwell in the land, and serve the
 king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
 Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with
 him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that
 were with him at Mizpah.
25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the
 armies, arose, and came to Egypt:  for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
 of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and
 twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the
 year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of
 Judah out of prison;
25:28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the
 kings that were with him in Babylon;
25:29 And changed his prison garments:  and he did eat bread continually
 before him all the days of his life.
25:30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a
 daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.